Rand Paul Opposes Patriot Act Renewal on Constitutional Grounds
Freshman Kentucky Senator and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul announced February 10 he would oppose renewal of key parts of the USA Patriot...
Debate Over Government Shutdown if GOP Defunds HealthCare
A day before a health care opponent DeFundIt.org called for a government shutdown, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga., left) told CNSNews.com (reported Feb. 10) that...
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Rancher To Appeal Judgment On Illegals
Roger Barnett, the rancher in Douglas, Ariz., ordered on Feb. 3 to pay $87,000 to illegal aliens he detained at gunpoint on his...
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Freshmen Force House Leadership to Cut More Spending
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives never really had their hearts in all their pre-election...
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The Raid on Truk Lagoon
Having grown up during the years following World War II, it never fails to surprise me how little most people who haven’t reached...
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Abraham Lincoln, Political Tyrant
We’ve spent a lot of time recently bashing “the worst President who ever lived.” (That’s the description of the current occupant of the...
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Recalling a Manufactured Crisis
President Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, uttered the increasingly famous dictum: “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” In other words,...
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Why Johnny STILL Can’t Read
Fifty-six years ago, in 1955 to be exact, the most significant book about American education was published and, with very good reason, caused...
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CPAC’s First Day Highlight’s Ron Paul’s Popularity
The first day of the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) set the stage for what could be a raucous weekend of exciting...
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CPAC Audience Rejects Donald Rumsfeld
Much to the chagrin of constitutionalists across the country, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was presented the “Defender of the Constitution” award at...
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NAACP Ignores Racial Remarks About Justice Thomas
Progressives who opposed the political activities of Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brother industrialists helping fund the Tea Party movement, want to...
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On the Delights of Reading Old Magazines
I recently had the pleasure of perusing a number of old magazines from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1918. They included such great...
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First Fed Hearing Begins with Democratic Character Attack
The ranking Democrat on the House Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee began the first hearing on the Federal Reserve Bank in the new...
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Is Webb Too Conservative for the Democrats?
Senator James Webb the conservative Democrat from Virginia who defeated incumbent moderate Republican Senator George Allen in 2006, has announced his retirement from...
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Mayor Defends Chicago’s Widespread Camera Surveillance
CBSChicago.com reported on Feb. 8 that Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is defending the city’s use of surveillance cameras. On Tuesday, the Mayor rejected...
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